Chicago II – Spotify We wanted to get closer to the music. We grew up in an era where music came out of a small speaker in the dashboard, a tiny speaker on the side of the all-in-one record player in our bedroom, the muffled speaker on the front of the console in the living […]

The dirty little secret is most “Shark Tank” deals don’t close anyway. Because the devil is in the details and most sellers obfuscate and when the sharks dig down deep and do their due diligence they often walk away. But why do the pitchers walk away? I have “Shark Tank” on permanent record on my […]

What the hell happened here? We’re used to our classic rock heroes dropping. Credit David Bowie, Glenn Frey and Prince. We were just minding our own business, as were they, and they bit the dust. The Big C got Bowie. Rheumatoid arthritis drugs got Frey. As for Prince… Do we really know who anybody is […]

1. Mariah Carey Bob Dylan looked up to Woody Guthrie, today’s nitwits admire Mariah Carey. That’s right, she hit almost three decades ago and dominated the nineties and what was her message? Empty hedonism. Sung by a woman with great pipes. So, that’s who today’s TV contestants emulate. They figure someone else will write the […]